Recently, gamified wearable fitness trackers have received greater attention and usage among sport consumers. Although a moderate amount of aerobic physical activity can significantly reduce the risk many serious illnesses, inactivity issues are still prominent. potential to contribute engagement sustainable health outcomes, there dwindling discontinuance issues. Thus, examining its gamificatio...

OBJECTIVE To explore the knowledge, beliefs, and practices (KBPs) regarding cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) treatment held by an endemic population in Ecuador. METHODS A follow-up to research done several years before, this study used random cluster sampling to select 529 adults who lived in rural northwestern Ecuador. Data were collected over a 24-month period using in-depth interviews suppleme...

This research explores the underlying roles of effectuation and causation logic as they impact upon firm resilience in Small Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) unprecedented disruption caused by Covid-19. Because Covid-19 provides a unique powerful discontinuance to internal external environments, it requires adaptation wide variety areas, seek find new “normal”. Our study contributes literature a...

This paper develops and defends a coherentist account of reasons. I develop three core ideas for this defense: a distinction between basic reasons and noninferential justification, the plausibility of the neglected argument against first philosophy, and an emergent account of reasons. These three ideas form the backbone for a credible coherentist view of reasons. I work toward this account by f...

Recent decision-making research claims to establish that, in violation of Savage’s normative sure-thing principle, individuals often wait to acquire noninstrumental information and subsequently base their decisions upon this information. The current research suggests that characterizing individuals as pursuing noninstrumental or useless information may be overstated. Through a series of experim...